Re: .so version numbers for dlopen'd objects

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Ryan Tandy wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 12:51:49PM -0700, Paul B. Henson wrote:
> > They say that shared objects which are intended to be dlopen'd, as opposed
> > to linked to, should not include version numbers, and it should look like:
> >
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 henson henson 1773576 May 21 12:54 back_bdb-2.4.so
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 henson henson     864 May 21 12:54 back_bdb.la
>
> Personally I'd even go further:
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 henson henson 1773576 May 21 12:54 back_bdb.so

I'd say it's a mistake to remove the version info, since modules tend to be 
intimately tied to the specific version of OpenLDAP for which they were built.

Backends in particular are dependent on the specific slap.h. Password modules 
etc may be less version-dependent.
> (and no .la at all - on platforms where that's feasible)


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